Your entrance - from the front gate to the hallway - is the first impression of your home that your guests get and it’s the first thing you see when you come home. So naturally, you’d want it to feel inviting and warm. But there are things that make an entrance feel unwelcoming and you might not even realise it – I’ve asked 4 interior experts what those are and they all agreed that it tends to be a combination of the 6 factors below.
If your entrance is ‘guilty’ of one of these hallway mistakes, don’t worry – the pros have also shared how to fix them and decorate your hallway like an interior designer. ‘An entrance is the first sensory conversation a space has with you,’ explains Franky Rousell, founder and CEO at Jolie, a sensory-led interior design practice. ‘Before you've consciously registered anything, your nervous system has already taken a reading of the light, the temperature, the smell, the sound, and the feel underfoot. The most unwelcoming entrances are sensory-flat.’
